McDavid snaps goal drought with OT winner
Connor McDavid scored 4:34 into overtime and also had two assists to rally the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday night.
Zach Hyman scored twice to give him 40 for the season as Edmonton won its second straight. Stuart Skinner finished with 30 saves.
Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich scored for the Blues, who have lost three straight and five of six. Jordan Binnington had 31 saves.
Late in the extra period, McDavid danced past a couple of defenders before chipping a shot past Binnington for his 22nd of the season to snap a 10-game goal-scoring drought. He had 25 assists between goals.
RANGERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 1 >> Artemi Panarin had two goals and an assist, Igor Shesterkin stopped 30 shots and New York beat Columbus.
Chris Kreider had a goal and an assist and Adam Fox also scored as the Rangers won their sixth straight at home game and 11th in the last 12 games. New York, first in the Eastern Conference, improved to 122-1 in the last 15 games — three nights after having a 10-game winning streak snapped at Columbus.
Kreider and Panarin scored empty-netters 41 seconds apart in the final minute in what had been a tight game. Kreider got his 30th and Panarin increased his career-best total to 35.
Cole Sillinger scored for Columbus and Elvis Merzlikins finished with 26 saves. Columbus, last in the East, has lost five of its last eight.
STARS DEAL FOR BLUE-LINER TANEV >> Dallas acquired defenseman Chris Tanev from Calgary, the latest addition by a Stanley Cup contender in the Western Conference ahead of the March 8 NHL trade deadline.
Dallas sent a 2024 second-round pick, 20-yearold defense prospect Artem Grushnikov and a 2026 conditional third-rounder to Calgary for Tanev, who was considered one of the top trade candidates available. The Flames are retaining half and New Jersey another quarter of Tanev's $4.5 million salary as part of the deal, which also includes the Stars flipping a 2026 fourth-round pick to the Devils for unsigned goaltending prospect Cole Brady.